the heart of it and realized everything you. are welcome to the big picture. the week's top stories here on r.t. airport tragedy a passenger jet slams into a russian highway killing four after overshooting the runway the survivors now fighting for their lives. president obama's call for a ban on some firearms sparked a massive shopping spree in the u.s. with gun stores reporting record profits. with no end in sight to the syrian conflict the rebels' desperate push for regime change and rejection of dialogue raises international pleas of the worst is yet to come. and moscow hits washington with counter legislation after the u.s. sanctions on russian officials it accuses them of human rights violations.

and i welcome good to have you company watching live from moscow. four people have died and four others are in a critical condition after a passenger jet crash landed at a moscow airport the plane is said to have overshot the runway splintering into pieces and littering an outlying highway with debra medina kitchen of a report from the nuclear airport. the investigation asms will in the full swing this of this is the second and the biggest purge of the plane that still remains very close to the highway and looks very terrifying but beyond their purse of the plane in particular a cabin at that through right on the highway after the crash and where four crew

members died as well as the a black boxes how been cleared over at the night and now the investigation is it working with the data on the black boxes meanwhile there is also a video that captured the exact moment how these a jet present plane crashed into the highway and that video appeared on the internet over the night meanwhile there are three main questions why this tragedy happened now these versions are weather conditions pilot error and possible tactical problems with the plane and particular there are reports that there might be an something wrong with the plane's braking system that's why it couldn't stop while being on the runway so the investigation is underway out of eight crew members of course of vive but all are in critical condition the witnesses those drivers were captured by crashing their own cars sad that you are right off for the

crash this seem to look devastating and terrifying and not. cause injury said to the a soul all of those survivors own board of the plane were all covered and blogs and were in critical condition and they were in such a critical condition that people who rushed to help the survivors didn't even know how to approach the would the taliban as they were afraid not to hurt them even more we can now listen to one of the witnesses and watch not to say. i feel one woman recovered in regard it was the start of trend and christina. she said that the plane overshot the runway but they weren't carrying any passengers and that there is another surviving flight attendant there the rescue unit came very far but the ambulance couldn't get through because of the traffic they were gave the injured flight attendant first aid job best knowledge called her mother to tell her

she was ok strapped her woman language and close group of find and they even found a car to take her to hospital but there is also video that captured at the exact moment when one of the flight attendants was taking out of the pain now the woman wasn't conscious she was all covered in blood and she was visibly seriously injured meanwhile people who rushed to help this a virus on board of those planes did that one price of the plane were still on fire and there was a risk of a possible explosion this plane to pull up to four out to all four excuse me is the passenger plane with the capacity to carry two hundred anti-hunting passengers and that particular plane belong to russian low cost or red wings. well mark weiss a retired american airlines captain a member of the civil aviation team the spectrum group says he experienced crew may have prevented a major tragedy. in a very prejudiced way because i'm

a pilot and have more than twenty years for airline flying i want to say that it was probably situational awareness that the pilots had that they saw what was happening to the aircraft and did their best either through most of the bird or paddles at this thing by using the engines to help also. more thrust on one side less other will also help determine when so you want to go to remember these things happen in such a short period of time that taking a look at what's happening and how to try and control over a situation takes a lot of skill it's not something you practice in the simulator going off the end of a runway so the experience and combine through prevent a more catastrophic situation from occurred. there are more pictures and eyewitness

accounts from the scene at our website where you can also find out more about the plane itself that is at. dot com. it feels like a business in the u.s. has never been better with people rushing to stall with fearing firearms may soon become a fad bitten fruit that's after barack obama urged a ban on some weapons following the connecticut primary school tragedy. can takes up the story. about two weeks ago actually on this particular wall here. we are is four rows down four rows across. with everything going on in politics right now with the possible there and then everything everyone is flooding in. purchasing right away gun stores all across the u.s. are reporting record sales just two weeks after the tragic shooting at the elementary school in newtown americans are scrambling to buy the same type of weapon that adam lanza used in the connecticut shooting plus high capacity

magazines and a lot of them panic buying trigger it out of fear that the white house is out to ban the weapons but this time the words need to lead to action no a r fifteen for this customer all sold out at the store while prices on line have gone through the rules have been going for a thousand and fifteen hundred dollars to twenty five hundred three thousand dollars even in some cases it's just the most amazing gun buying spree i've ever seen so many gun retailers now quite cynically refer to thieve ministrations ben talk as the obama gun stimulus that's how good it's been for their business so how do you go from a president with a tough gun control agenda to someone gun dealers call the greatest gun sales money in america manufactures of semi-automatic rifles report that their market has grown thirty percent over the last four years states like north carolina iowa and you have seen a one hundred percent increase in gun sales over the same period in the wake of the

tragedy in newtown one of the country's biggest ammunition suppliers said they sold more than three years worth of magazines in just three days although president obama himself has so far failed to act on his pledge to ban assault weapons his words have certainly provoked action just not the type he may have wanted for someone they say is against. going to great job for us. really should be a third term in order to sell even more weapons many dealers hype up the gun apocalypse scenario for the baby and then bring more the women over to someone to start not only you started. but many of them don't actually see any drastic changes happening anytime soon after all any significant gun control measures and up in the past ultimately clashed with the second amendment of the constitution and were subsequently scrapped. ancient illegal jr i'm going to check out.

egypt's ruse what their opponents the country's top security is probable leaders for allegedly inciting an uprising just days after a low turnout referendum approved a controversial new constitution that is just ahead from. adoption of russian children by u.s. citizens will no longer be possible after president putin signed the bill contained the amendment into law the measure is a tit for tat response to america's sanctions against russian officials seizes human rights violators r.t. to really bring just more details on the diplomatic raff. you have to understand that the law the so-called denton magnitsky law actually deals primarily a with imposing travel and financial strictures on the number of american officials and persons who have committed crimes against russian citizens and one only part of

the law actually bans the adoption of russian children by american citizens it has been in part inspired by the case of the russian toddler who was adopted by the american family in two thousand and nine and died in their custody several months later after his father left him in a locked in the car in the blistering heat for nine hours the russian lawmakers feel that the american law system does not provide adequate adequate protection for the russian kids and also does not punish those responsible for the deaths of russian kids for example do you have to lose father adoptive father walked away with a fine but you have to remember that russia is going to boost the care and the situation with orphanages and foster homes in the country as well as improve further condition so for orphans it is seen as a sort of retaliate a measure towards this so-called magnitsky act which was adopted in the united states just a couple of weeks ago. which entails a list of russian officials whom the united states believed to be involved in the

case. and now the act itself. puts a severe restrictions on the travel and freezes financial assets of the russian officials in question now the case of the game against. involved the russian lawyer who was arrested on tax evasion charges and died while opening for a limited confinement but again these two acts are seen as the latest developments in the diplomatic row which seems to not to get any better between russia and the united states despite the whole affair with the reset button. moscow says that the refusal of syria's k. opposition coalition to enter into dog. a log with the government is a road to nowhere and will result only in further bloodshed at a meeting with international peace envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi foreign minister sergei lavrov reiterated that dialogue is the only means to resolve the conflict is also stated on numerous occasions that although russia condemns methods the syrian

army is using in the war it will take no part in regime change in his his response to the leader series key rebel group who demanded moscow apologizes for what he describes as support for president sat. the promotion is spent i understand that mr hurd tb is probably not very experienced in politics but he's looking to be a serious politician it is in his interest to hear our position from us and not from the media that sometimes distorts information so i'll repeat we're ready to talk to or opposition forces but we start from the premise that they should not only think of both their own ambitions but also the fate of the syrian people and if they think that russia could play a role in the country's tragedy will simply should meet our representatives with their conditions national notice but he also managed to speak exclusively with the foreign minister more official thoughts and assessment of the syrian crisis is coming up next. egypt's top prosecutor is looking to outlaw the

leaders of the opposition launching a probe into mohamed morsi three top opponents they are accused of inciting their followers to overthrow the zionist president earlier this week the country's new constitution was officially adopted after a two state referendum if you seek the support of a the sixty percent of voters amid a low turnout and allegations of massive fraud opposition activists say the new charter drawn up by the muslim brotherhood effectively imposes shariah rule on the country nick clark a world affairs contributor for britain's guardian newspaper explained why he thinks morsi is going after the opposition now. think he wants to sort of deflect attention from the economy because the underlying probably the biggest is the economic crisis one of four egyptians are without jobs poverty is on the rise and the subsidies on fuel which means that the prices of gasoline are going to rocket and so this is a kind of sort of smokescreen and he would break in to get tied up in these the

legal challenges to sort of stop them from focusing on opposing him on the issues where he's he's very weak and i think also he be worried that you know a sizable minority thirty six over thirty six percent of people voted against the constitution and the fact seems to be that that he said is on the way. and i think that obviously you know i think we can see more protests in the new year. the u.s. presidential election proved to be a tight run competition with a tense build up that had some candidates left the fringe you know special and if we look at the debates perceiving the voting record how our team managed to give a voice to the dark horses of the race that and more in a few minutes. i

never thought i could earn a living this way. natale issue of all is a lawyer should test small arms so there's a lot almost machine building ploy and a lot of these sourced count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the planet's history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans so if you were also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it thrived on the massive moods of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the year old truck factory russia's number one truck maker for girls

a look at how well the workplace is organized everything's done to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was the old production is booming and the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe heya base a brand new breed now waiting to be delivered to acquire seventy trucks like this one roll up the bronx conveyor belt every day look at about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get that. well i can go for a test drive. well i was planning to get one of these to travel to whatever in the morning but with the cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving my.

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welcome back now for many at this time of year it does seem that it is the size of your wallet that tate's how much festive fun you'll enjoy but while shops are reaping the benefits of a commercial boost elderly people in the u.k. surviving on their pensions are left price out of the christmas spirit. takes up the story. santa claus is coming to town and the shops are ready for that i knew a customer on. lot eighty two year old lady isn't in the festive spirit she's worried that she can't afford to be anything other than a scrooge this christmas. isn't enough. that guy. that. wrote that and off to most

energy from hike prices is the winter months set in libby and people like her face a cold or dark a festive season. but our new boiler. in the bedroom in the. bedroom up yeah i don't know they are no if there's a big bill. and it are bad enough money to cover it more britons are turning off their heating in the run up to a costly christmas and they're using these hot water bottles instead but according to hospital the money saving trend comes in the high price of its own with soaring numbers of buttons and injuries it isn't just the cost of fuel christmas essential is will soon be worth their weight in gold the average price of turkey has risen seven percent since last year a family bird set a new back

a whopping fifty five pounds on your christmas cards an average pack of twelve costs ten percent more this holiday and with printer ink now pricier than champagne you can forget about making your own to save money besides postage doesn't come cheap now at thirty percent more this christmas first class post in every sense of the term there's not a shop in the land that would risk missing out on a christmas promotion right now it's not sure why get fired up to the best seventy's getting more and more commercial but as austerity gets written you what can she afford to take god's we've talked to many families about christmas time and it's something they really struggle with a time when all the families are celebrating pension the lady isn't just worried about the plight of the elderly she knows she's far from alone and counting down to a down costs december twenty fifth you know where they've been going out but their

wages that are now. and paper that. there's a lot of paper that. they've got now and with the bank of england's less than glad tidings of a triple dip recession on the cards struggling britons will be wishing for nothing short of a christmas miracle. r t london. now as the new year draws closer r.t. looks at the turning points of twenty twelve the american presidential elections proved to be one of the most memorable events for our channel as did the debates preceded.

we have been running the election of close to your ears more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running wild guests on the show is so outrageous that trump so given the voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture. we are just a couple hours away now from the third party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our studio in a debate floor one of the most important functions of democracy is to the debate a lot of discussion about a lot of issues and the more we can open up don't credit institutions like our our election system with which of multiple parties to what it might even be considered fringe parties more likely we are to have an open honest debate on the wide variety of issues rather than a very narrow range people often ask why is it a two horse race what do you know of those bright heads in the country to compete when they don't have to explain that there are other voices but that they're pushed

out of the process because they're not part of the big party machine and on foreign policy for example the alternative candidates have clearly been against military interventions against military expansion ideas that will fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney debating whatever right here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.b.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact. election oh that would be the pie in the sky is that would impact the election and let me just give you a car knowledge. of the libertarian party. you know the fact is you go from an annoyance to a spoiler to a player we really need to be bringing third parties fourth parties fist parties

into that but you're blocking traffic even opposite our personality types so i think. i feel like this is a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break into the party and offer the solutions that the american people are clamoring for. wealthy british style. is not on.

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more news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for a shelter all day. look. a ritual and atticus in imperial russia. the tradition of staging bowls is being revived in our time frame. but the parties with parul. sub i did my own satisfaction.

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his face prepared either for despair all rapture suddenly brightened into a happy grateful childlike smile. i have long been waiting for you that frightened happy girl seemed to say by the smile that replaced the threatened tears as she raised her hand prints under a shoulder. they were the second couples who went to the circle prince andre it was one of the best dances of his day i'm natasha sticks was it. it's the highlights of the russian bowl season i'm always been invited the most first look to attend an event which they promise me is going to be the height of sophistication and delegates and it's the eighteenth twelfth anniversary both.

for over a thousand years the russians have known that a good party needs don't sink down the centuries rich and poor alike have learned the steps put on their costumes and set off to find love patronage or simply a good time. in this suitably grand building almost two hundred people have gathered to perform the classics from the polonaise to the polka all in front of a live orchestra. you can't help but notice the effort that's going into their appearance and although i wasn't the only one in my dress i did feel a little out of place.